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Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

Honore de Balzac

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
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Affection Hate Heart Human Rare Slope
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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Creation Genius Husband Marriage Woman
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Familiar Marriage Monster Similar
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Boredom Coffee People
The more one judges, the less one loves.
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Judgement Love Oneself
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
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Acquire Pieces Virtue Whole Yourself
A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons – the least rewarded of all forms of courage.
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Courage Easy Form Lesson Repeat Reward Teacher
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
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Future Investment Man Old Own Past Sorrow
The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.
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Defeat Orphan Parents Victory
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Food Hate Small Soul Vice
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
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Dance Quite Right Woman
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man’s life would only serve to make a chronological table-a fool’s notion of history.
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Feeling Fools History Judgement Life Man Secret Sorrow
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
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Born Journey Painful Poetry Thinking
Coffee falls into the stomach. Ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop. the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink.
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Beginning Coffee Fall Ideas Ink Paper Smile
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
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Husband Lover Run Thinking Way
No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
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Discover Friendship Himself Man Way Wife

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

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